It sickens me to hear all of the reasons (excuses) explaining our record, while I see many teams across the league in similar situations. Thus, it is not the excuses that are keeping us in the bottom part of the league, it is something else less tangible. It is heart or confidence or loft ('lack of ^&*&^** talent').
Excuses:
(1)Our QB is not healthy--boy, you certainly don't hear the same complaints in New Orleans, Philly, Cincy, and Jetsville. Serious injuries to these QB's, and they are all playing excellent or very well. A step down, you could make the same argument for other QB's who had big injuries last year(albeit not as serious) like Grossman and Bulger.
(2)Our oline is yet to jell--love this one. Yes, there are no superstars on this line, but do you see the same problems in Tenn., Clev., Buffalo, San Diego, etc.?? Now, with the exception of SD, these teams aren't that great, but they certainly aren't blaming the oline day after day, game after game. Tell me how the Chargers do it with a non-descript line and no Houck? Must be system or something. Of course they have LT, but I think they be pretty frickin' good with RB as well.
(3) Damon Huard-I mean, are you kidding me? We couldn't even coach up this guy to be better than Fiedler (Sorry Jay, always like your heart and guts) and now he is leading KC to a 41 point win. Could you honestly say we could beat SF by 41 points with Culpepper? No chance in hell-we just don't beat up other teams; we didn't when Ricky was running rampant in '02, and we didn't for many of the last Marino years. We are so boring on offense, and now we are simply terrible. It is a challenge just getting first downs against the Texans and the Titans. Simply sickening.
(4)Pass rush--where the hell is it. Yeah, we have 12 sacks, that's good, but boy do we have stretches, and I mean stretches where we don't push the pocket whatsover. And that was against the Titans and Texans and Bills. Sad. What a way to blow up the secondary.
Man, I could go on and on. Draft picks, trades, etc. have been relatively futile. Chambers and Brown are by far the best over the last 5 years. McMichaels is overrated, and so is Crowder and Allen. ZT and JT are certainly still decent players, but slowly passing their time. Holiday and Carter should be gone next year. Ugh, it is not looking good. And where is the help for the oline?? Alabi, Toledo, Jacox, McKinney. Please, these guys are of no hope, let's be honest.
Sugar coat it all you want. This could get even uglier before it gets better.
Excuses:
(1)Our QB is not healthy--boy, you certainly don't hear the same complaints in New Orleans, Philly, Cincy, and Jetsville. Serious injuries to these QB's, and they are all playing excellent or very well. A step down, you could make the same argument for other QB's who had big injuries last year(albeit not as serious) like Grossman and Bulger.
(2)Our oline is yet to jell--love this one. Yes, there are no superstars on this line, but do you see the same problems in Tenn., Clev., Buffalo, San Diego, etc.?? Now, with the exception of SD, these teams aren't that great, but they certainly aren't blaming the oline day after day, game after game. Tell me how the Chargers do it with a non-descript line and no Houck? Must be system or something. Of course they have LT, but I think they be pretty frickin' good with RB as well.
(3) Damon Huard-I mean, are you kidding me? We couldn't even coach up this guy to be better than Fiedler (Sorry Jay, always like your heart and guts) and now he is leading KC to a 41 point win. Could you honestly say we could beat SF by 41 points with Culpepper? No chance in hell-we just don't beat up other teams; we didn't when Ricky was running rampant in '02, and we didn't for many of the last Marino years. We are so boring on offense, and now we are simply terrible. It is a challenge just getting first downs against the Texans and the Titans. Simply sickening.
(4)Pass rush--where the hell is it. Yeah, we have 12 sacks, that's good, but boy do we have stretches, and I mean stretches where we don't push the pocket whatsover. And that was against the Titans and Texans and Bills. Sad. What a way to blow up the secondary.
Man, I could go on and on. Draft picks, trades, etc. have been relatively futile. Chambers and Brown are by far the best over the last 5 years. McMichaels is overrated, and so is Crowder and Allen. ZT and JT are certainly still decent players, but slowly passing their time. Holiday and Carter should be gone next year. Ugh, it is not looking good. And where is the help for the oline?? Alabi, Toledo, Jacox, McKinney. Please, these guys are of no hope, let's be honest.
Sugar coat it all you want. This could get even uglier before it gets better.
